People, let me remind you he sold the game the company in the first place, ok?
Before the business went down, mohang changed the rules of private minecraft servers, affecting a lot of people, and threating a shutdown in some server that used a free to play model. Of course, as big as minecraft were, a lot of people reached him about it, and not in a ligth tone (oh, can you imagine it? people on internet overreacting?). Anyway, he was not even aware about all that fuss was about, he probably played no rule on that change in the policy, but afterall the pressure, he decided to quit, leave all behind, as he lived a simple life before minecraft. So when he say taht he can't go back, is because he doesn't want to deal with thid kind of pressure again.
Many of you didn't remenber, but after the first million of copies sold, he wondered what to make with all the money, saying something like" maybe will buy a car". Now you understand why rich people are usually reserved..
Between this and the flappy bird guy, developer should work better in their business perspective. Be prepared not only for failure, but also for a huge sucess.
"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."
Gunpei Yoko
